THE only way you could become the subject of abiopic in the past was: either live long and die accomplished, or die young, beautiful and famous.

Now you don’t even have to die – as long as you’re beautiful and famous.

Sunday night’s movie, “Prince William,” is about a guy who is very young, very beautiful, and very alive, even though he’s had a very tragic event in his life which made him even more famous.

The movie, of course, chronicles the life – so far – of the breathtakingly handsome Prince William, the royal Brit with the even cuter younger brother.

Since the kid is so young and the information so fresh, it’s more like a retelling of everything we’ve read in the tabloids – but with actors playing the parts.

Clearly, Prince William (Jordan Frieda, “Band of Brothers”) hasn’t lived long enough to make all that much of a movie, but the producers milk the drama for all its worth.

Beginning with the death of his mom Princess Diana and ending with his decision to go work with the poor before going off to college, the movie tries to recreate the drama in the kid’s life.

William and Prince Harry (Eddie Cooper) are portrayed as a couple of normal kids with a really uptight father, and a grandmother who is so stiff she must have starch for blood (blue starch, of course).

The most interesting thing about the movie is how it emphasizes, over and over again, how tortured the young prince is by tabloid stories that chronicle his life when in fact, the movie itself is gleaned from tabloid stories – and much worse because it’s a TV recreation of what the newspapers reported!

Acted with a sympathetic touch, Frieda (son of the singer Lulu and famous hairdresser John Frieda) does a fine job, although he’s not as gorgeous as the real deal. Then again, no one is.

Prince Charles is played by Martin Turner, who makes the prince seem a caring if stuffy dad. He gets caught in the bedroom (fully dressed) with Camilla Parker Bowles (Carolynn Pickles).

The queen (Rosemary Leach), William’s mates at school, Camilla’s bad-ass kids and his bodyguard (Thomas Lockyer) are all wonderful actors.

The only problem is that the kid hasn’t lived enough of life to make it a really compelling movie.